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Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Marry The Women In Honest Wedlock

LESSON
# 491 FROM HOLY QUR’AN

Marry
The Women In Honest Wedlock

Surah NISAAA’ (WOMEN) - Chapter - 4)

Verses
–24b of 176, Section –4/24 (Part – 5)

And all married women (are forbidden unto you)
save those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a Decree of Allah
for you. And lawful unto you are all beyond those mentioned, so that ye seek
them with your wealth in honest wedlock, not debauchery.

MUHSANAATUN - It is
plural of Muhsanatun. It means the woman
who is proper wife of any man and her husband is present (the married women).

muhsi-niina– It is plural of muhsinun. That is to say; the man, who makes a woman properly his
wife through nuptial knot.

maa malakat
‘ay-maanukum – (whom your right hands possess) ma (whom), malakat (came in possession) ‘ay-maanukum
(your right hands), possession of right hands means those bondwomen and slaves,
who come under control of Muslims as a result of any war etc. Technically the word
Milkun yamiin is also used for them.

Now unlawfulness of those women is being
described who have already been married with any man. In this situation, they
cannot be married someone else until either their husbands would not divorce
them or they would not be separated from the nuptial due to the death of their
husbands. However, if any woman is already in nuptial with any man and she has come
in your possession, then it is lawful to marry her. This situation happens in
that manner when any infidel woman has been tied in nuptial knot and the Muslims
bring her towards any darus-Salam (a Muslim
country) after attacking the dar-ul-harb
(a country where God-worshipping is not permissible) and arresting her.

Remember it that the woman who comes in possession
of Muslims, caught from dar-ul-harb, it
is necessary for her to be lawful after passing at least one period of
menstruation. In addition, that woman should not be infidel or idolater, but
from the People of the Scripture. Then it has been described that the women,
whose unlawfulness has been mentioned above, besides them all remaining women are
lawful for you but with following four conditions, which have been prescribed
with it:

1.Ask for the women, that is to say; get
willingness properly for nuptial knot from the potential wife.

2.Accept paying her the amount of Mahr (the money or its value incumbent on
the husband).

3.The purpose should be to make the woman proper your
wife, not only for the desire of sensuality.

4.The marriage should not be hidden but it should
be in the gathering of the people and in the presence of the witnesses.

Transliterated Holy Qur’an in Roman Script & Translated from Arabic to English by Marmaduke Pickthall, Published by Paak Company, 17-Urdu Bazar, Lahore, Lesson collected from Dars e Qur’an published By Idara Islah wa Tableegh, Lahore (translated
Urdu to English by Muhammad Sharif).